- Promoted meta.k8s.io/v1beta1 Table and PartialObjectMetadata to v1. ([#77136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77136), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Introduced a breaking change to the `resource.k8s.io` API in its `AllocationResult` struct. This change allows a kubelet plugin for the `DynamicResourceAllocation` feature to service allocations from multiple resource driver controllers. ([#116332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116332), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))...

* Mark image as deliberately optional in v1 Container struct.  Many objects in the Kubernetes API inherit the container struct and only Pods require the field to be set. ([#48406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48406), [@gyliu513](https://github.com/gyliu513))

* Mark image as deliberately optional in v1 Container struct.  Many objects in the Kubernetes API inherit the container struct and only Pods require the field to be set. ([#48406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48406), [@gyliu513](https://github.com/gyliu513))

    * `File()`

* The new parameter fields are:

    * `default_factory`
    * `alias_priority`
    * `validation_alias`
    * `serialization_alias`
    * `discriminator`
    * `strict`
    * `multiple_of`
    * `allow_inf_nan`
    * `max_digits`
    * `decimal_places`
    * `json_schema_extra`

...you can read about them in the Pydantic docs.

- kubeadm: The ControlPlaneEndpoint was moved from the API config struct to ClusterConfiguration ([#67830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67830), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

  qualified domain name (FQDN) of a Pod is set as hostname of its containers. 
  In Linux containers, this means setting the FQDN in the hostname field of the 
  kernel (the nodename field of struct utsname).  In Windows containers, this
  means setting the this means setting the registry value of hostname for the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Tcpip\\Parameters to FQDN. 

- Fixed scheduling of **CronJob** with `@every X` schedules. ([#109250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109250), [@d-honeybadger](https://github.com/d-honeybadger))
- Fixed strict server-side field validation treating `metadata` fields as unknown fields. ([#109268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109268), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Log messages and metrics for the watch cache are now keyed by `<resource>.<group>` instead of `go` struct type. This means e.g. that `*v1.Pod` becomes `pods`. Additionally, resources that come from `CustomResourceDefinitions` are displayed as the correct resource and group, instead of `*unstructured.Unstructured`. ([#111807](https://github.com/kubern...

* apply falls back to generic 3-way JSON merge patch if no go struct is registered for the target GVK ([#40666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40666), [@ymqytw](https://github.com/ymqytw))